Spice up your roast dinner with Gizzi Erskine's exotic pot roast chicken recipe from episode 1 of the new Channel 4 series, Cook Yourself Thin
Ingredients
- 1tsp ground nut oil
- 5 cloves garlic
- 3cm fresh root ginger, peeled
- 1-2 Thai birds eye chillies
- ½tsp turmeric
- 3-4 Kaffir lime leaves, sliced
- A small bunch coriander, finely chopped
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 large whole chicken
- 300ml Asian beer, preferably a Vietnamese beer
- 400ml fresh chicken stock
- 1tbsp fish sauce
- 1tbsp palm sugar
- Boiled rice, to serve
- Pak choi, to serve
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Method
- Place the garlic, ginger, chillies, turmeric, lime leaves, coriander, oil, salt and pepper into a food processor and blitz until it becomes a smooth paste.
- With your hands gently rub under the skin of the chicken to detach it from the carcass then rub the marinade all over the chicken, and underneath the skin of the chicken. You can slash the legs two or three times so that the marinade can permeate into the meat. Leave to marinate for at least two hours but the longer you leave it the better it will taste so I would suggest doing it for the full 24 hours.
- Heat the oven to 200ºC. Place the chicken into a deep Dutch oven casserole dish. Cover with the beer, stock, fish sauce and palm sugar, pop the lid on and roast in the oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the lid and finish baking with the lid off for another 30-40 mins or until the chicken is cooked through. Remove from the oven then leave to rest for 15 mins.
- Remove the chicken from the pot. There should be about an inch of sauce in the pan. Taste the sauce. It may need to be seasoned. Carve the chicken and serve with boiled rice and pak choi with the sauce poured over.
Top Tip for making Gizzi Erskine's Vietnamese pot roast chicken
Palm sugar is a sugar from South Asia. You may be able to find it in the 'World Foods' section at your local supermarket, but if you can't get it, you could use a low-calorie sweetener instead.
Gizzi Erskine is the phenomenal chef behind many of the nation’s much-loved cookery programmes such as Cook Yourself Thin, Cookery School, The Wine Show and Cooks to Market. She has also appeared as a chef on daytime television shows, such as Good Morning Britain. Born as Griselda Erskine in Dumfries, Scotland in 1979, Gizzi moved to London with her parents as a child. She graduated top of her year from the prestigious Leith’s School of Food and Wine before going on to launch her career as a chef. Since 2010, Gizzi has released eight cookery books focused on foolproof meals and a love of eating.
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